Lieutenant governor candidates schedule appearances

Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, his opponent for the job in the Oct. 22 election, are scheduled to see each other quite a bit in the next few weeks as they share forums and television face time. The two candidates will square off at a 10 a.m. Monday taping of a WWL-TV news show. The taped segment for "Sunday Edition with Dennis Woltering" will air Oct. 16 at 10 a.m., said Dominic Massa, executive producer for special projects at the station.

Jay Dardenne, left, and Billy Nungesser

The two candidates will return to WWL on Oct. 19 to appear on the 7 a.m. segment of the morning news show, Massa said.

Dardenne and Nungesser are scheduled to meet in a debate before the League of Women Voters in Baton Rouge on Oct. 13, and head to WDSU-TV in New Orleans for a taping of a 45-minute debate at 10 a.m. Oct. 17.

The debate will be aired as part of an hour-long "special edition" of Channel 6 news at 6 p.m. the same day, news director Jonathan Shelley said.

Both men are expected to attend the Jefferson Parish Convention and Visitors Bureau meeting at the Kenner Hilton on Oct. 19 as well as a forum for all GOP statewide candidates at the fall meeting of the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women's board meeting in Shreveport Oct. 14.